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Lit. Terms Jeopardy (A) - Katon
Big Words
100
The use of words to imitate natural sounds such as buzz and pop…
a. onomatopoeia
b. personification
c. alliteration
d. assonance
200
The repetition of the same consonant sound beginning several words in a sequence…
a. assonance
b. alliteration
c. personification
d. onomatopoeia
300
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human…
a. assonance
b. alliteration
c. personification
d. onomatopoeia
400
A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs…
a. trochaic pentameter
b. anapestic pentameter
c. dactylic pentameter
d. iambic pentameter
500
Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds…
a. assonance
b. alliteration
c. onomatopoeia
d. personification
Rhyme Time
100
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme…
a. blank verse
b. free verse
c. funky verse
d. sloppy verse
200
A metrical foot or unit of measure that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable…
a. toxic
b. flax
c. iambic
d. trochaic
300
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter…
a. free verse
b. sloppy verse
c. funky verse
d. blank verse
400
Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines…
a. refrain
b. iambic
c. synonym
d. antonym
500
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme…
a. singlet
b. couplet
c. triplet
d. quadruplet
Word Plays
100
One of two or more words that have the same meaning…
a. antonym
b. homonym
c. synonym
d. cinnamon
200
One of two or more words that have opposite meanings…
a. homonym
b. synonym
c. verb
d. antonym
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than…
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. antonym
d. synonym
400
A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings….
a. simile
b. pun
c. antonym
d. synonym
500
The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions…
a. simile
b. antonym
c. figurative language
d. pun
Think About It
100
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit….
a. paradox
b. tone
c. symbolism
d. stanza
200
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character…
a. tone
b. paradox
c. symbolism
d. stanza
300
A statement which seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth…
a. tone
b. paradox
c. stanza
d. symbolism
400
A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent person or a punctuation mark used to indicate the omission of letter(s)…
a. paradox
b. stanza
c. apostrophe
d. tone
500
The use of a person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well…
a. paradox
b. stanza
c. apostrophe
d. symbolism
Poetic Types
100
Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing….
a. prose
b. paradox
c. stanza
d. symbolism
200
A Japanese form of poetry which consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables
a. limerick
b. haiku
c. ballad
d. sonnet
300
A light or humorous verse form of five verses…
a. haiku
b. ballad
c. limerick
d. sonnet
400
A song that tells a story…
a. haiku
b. limerick
c. sonnet
d. ballad
500
A fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes…
a. sonnet
b. haiku
c. limerick
d. ballad
Final Jeopardy
The apparent paradox achieved by the use of words which seem to contradict one another
a. sonnet
b. haiku
c. ballad
d. oxymoron
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